Home of my personas Saylah and Alysianahtag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-2677792015-08-02T14:19:37-04:00Journal of my MMORPG gaming adventuresTypePadStar Citizen – Crockpot Updatetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834520a3a69e201b7c7b8f8ef970b2015-08-02T14:19:37-04:002015-08-02T14:19:37-04:00Quick update on what’s going on with Star Citizen. Mostly, we’re all hanging on every word trying to guess what the big reveals might be at GamesCom. I will unfortunately be out of town for work and unable to watch the live stream. I’ll have to wait for it to be posted on YouTube.Alysianah aka SaylahStar Citizen - Constellation Ship Seriestag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834520a3a69e201b8d13db6fc970c2015-07-26T14:25:27-04:002015-07-26T14:32:09-04:00Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of Star Citizens...
Dreaming of spaces goes back - way back to my childhood. To being 10 years old and running home from school to watch reruns of Star Trek. To seeing every episode a multitude of times. To reenacting the voyages in our basement, where a row of out dated appliances against the far wall was the Enterprise. Our U.S.S. Enterprise. I presided over our goon squad from the Captain’s Chair, which was me sitting crossed legged on old washing machine that happened to be in the middle. Wearing one of my mother’s sweater, the sleeves balled up to my elbows to stop them from dragging. Everyone had to wear the right color sweater cuz – uniforms. Alysianah aka SaylahStar Citizen – Drake Heraldtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834520a3a69e201b8d13be8b7970c2015-07-24T07:00:00-04:002015-07-22T15:09:02-04:00I thought I’d do a little write up on the Star Citizen Drake Herald, as it’s supposedly the next ship that will be hangar ready and made flyable in Arena Commander. The criteria used for which ships are prioritized for full flight capability, is whether or not the ship is needed for the single player RPG module, Squadron 42. Bad news for some in general, even though it make sense. The needs of S42 puts some of the original backer ships like the Constellation and Freelancer behind newer ships like the Herald.Alysianah aka SaylahStar Citizen - Updated Ship Status Logtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834520a3a69e201b7c7b26671970b2015-07-22T10:41:42-04:002015-07-22T10:50:54-04:00Cloud Imperium Games recently released an updated Star Citizen ship status log. Yes! They are going to keep the list updated. This is an excellent addition to available information. Not only for players who want to know what’s going on with a ship they’ve already purchased, I personally would want to what is flyable now, if I was considering another pledge. Alysianah aka SaylahStar Citizen – What’s Newtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834520a3a69e201bb0855860d970d2015-07-20T14:46:03-04:002015-07-20T14:54:43-04:00AC 1.1.5 was deployed to the PTU over the weekend – that’s test environment. I rarely if ever deal with MMO test servers. I’ll just wait until it’s pushed to production. Most of what’s coming are balancing changes such as ship durability, weapon damage and improved HOTAS usability. Along with thruster and flight mechanics changes – see lots of posts about changes in “drift”. The long awaited P-52 Merlin, a short ranged combat support ship that comes aboard the Constellation, is flyable.Alysianah aka SaylahStar Citizen – Coming Soon…tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834520a3a69e201b7c7af0f90970b2015-07-15T16:37:54-04:002015-07-20T18:46:04-04:00Jokes about the patented “coming soon” from game developers aside, what Star Citizen backers are receiving next is an update to Arena Commander. AC is the dogfighting module being used to test ships, combat, flight mechanics and the alike, during the SC alpha.Alysianah aka SaylahStar Citizen – It’s Enduring Grey Markettag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834520a3a69e201b7c7ad4a5a970b2015-07-12T14:28:05-04:002015-07-12T14:27:58-04:00It will be surprising to some to hear that Star Citizen has a very active community of players reselling ships, known as the Grey Market. Ships originally purchased directly from Cloud Imperium Games, are being marked up and sold by third party. Only a small portion of the ships sold are actually playable in Arena Commander. Many are not even available viewing in a ship hangar. Yet there’s enough surplus demand that players are buying and trading these digital assets.Alysianah aka SaylahStar Citizen – Search and Rescuetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834520a3a69e201bb084fea9d970d2015-07-10T07:04:00-04:002015-07-12T14:36:28-04:00To provide a gaming experience that is more tactical and varied, Star Citizen has devised a limb-based injury system which includes varying degrees of damage severity and permanence. It's not going to be the more common, a player gets injured so he runs and hides until his healthy magically regenerates to full. In Star Citizen, various areas of the body go through damage states from Normal (no injury) to Ruined (not usable or gone). To recover from a state below normal, player intervention is necessary. A detailed overview of the health system can be found here.Alysianah aka SaylahStar Citizen – Mining Overviewtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834520a3a69e201b8d13399ab970c2015-07-08T07:00:00-04:002015-07-12T14:37:35-04:00As this will be one of the professions many new players gravitate toward, here’s a quick overview of the mining profession. It was one of the first career design documents published and is supposedly representative of their philosophy for all careers. Which is that career associated tasks contain activities that require skill, dexterity and intelligence, where mindless repetition or idle monitoring are explicitly avoided.Alysianah aka SaylahStar Citizen Persistent Universe – Are you Prepared for Permadeath?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834520a3a69e201bb084db9f4970d2015-07-06T07:00:00-04:002015-07-05T16:08:52-04:00If you’re late to the Star Citizen (SC) party and still catching up on the encyclopedic amount of published content and videos to wade through, let me draw your attention to the fact that there is permadeath (PD) in the persistent universe. This will be the first MMO I’ve played with PD. I’ve played the high stakes lose your ship mechanics of EVE Online, where I’ve actually heard men cry on voice chat after losing billions+ ISK ships and their rare implants. But even in EVE, your character at least, is immortal. That won’t be the case in SC.Alysianah aka Saylah